cobbles
Britishplural noun
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coal in small rounded lumps
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cobblestones
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The legislation cobbles together some 50 bills sponsored by Members of both parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
And so the same peloton will be hurtling along the cobbles a couple of months before gliding through the sunflowers of a French summer.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
He showed a barren creekbed filled with cobbles, then a green wetland filled with ducks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
He’d barreled over wet cobbles past shivering farmers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
He rode through the streets of the city, down from his hill on high, O ’er the wynds and the steps and the cobbles, he rode to a woman s sigh.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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